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A. D. WRIGHT.

' TENT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25 I917.

1 ,3 1 7,408. Patented Sept. 30, 1919.

INVENTOR 4 D. WR/GIL/T A TTOIM/EYJ ALFRED D. WEIGHT, 013 BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA.

TENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 30, 1919.

Application filed June 25, 1917. Serial No. 176,645.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED D. WRIGH'r, a citizen of the United States, and a res1- dent of Berkeley, county of Alameda, and State of California, have invented a certain new and useful Tent, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to tents and particularly to a folding tent frame.

An object of the invention is to provide a tent which may be readily folded into a compact and easily portable bundle and which may be readily and quickly set up.

Another object is to provide a tent of such construction that when unfolded and set up, it possesses within itself sufiicient rigidity to properly sustain itself without the employment of external supports.

The invention possesses other advantageous features, some of which, with the foregoing, will be set forth at length in the following description where I shall outline in full that form of the invention which I have selected for illustration in the drawings accompanying and forming part of the present specification. In said drawings I have shown one specific form of my invention, but it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to such form, since the invention, as expressed in the claims, may be embodied in a plurality of forms.

Referring to said drawings:

Figure 1 is a vertical section of the tent of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the tent.

Fig. 3 is an elevation of the tent frame in a partly collapsed position, a portion of one of the standards being broken away to show the construction.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the upper portion of the frame, parts thereof being broken away to reduce the size of the figure.

Fig. 5 is a vertical section taken along one of the horizontal frame pieces.

The tent of my invention may be made in any desirable shape, that shown in the drawings being square, but it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to such shape. The tent comprises a collapsible frame to which the canvas or ducking 2 is secured, in such manner that it covers the frame. The frame comprises a plurality of standards 3, in the present instance there being four standards, each forming a corner post of the completed tent. Hinged to the upper end of each standard is a horibeam 4: is moved upward to the horizontal position, the end of the beam comes into contact with the side of the standard, forming a rigid joint. The beam is held in the horizontal position by the knuckle brace 5, pivoted at one end to the beam and at the other end to the standard. The knuckle brace 5 breaks upwardly and the knuckle hinge 6 is a stop-hinge and holds the two parts of the brace in alinement in extended position. When the tent is set up the knuckle brace drops into extended position rigidly bracing the beam and standard.

At their inner ends the beams are hinged to a center piece 7 in such manner that the center piece is movable downward only from its upper position. The inner ends of the beams are so formed that when the beams are in a horizontal position, the ends of the beams contact with the center piece forming a rigid structure. Rigidity of this portion of the structure is further insured by a post 9 secured to the center piece and connected to the beams by knuckle braces 12, which break upwardly and which are provided with stop-hinges 18. The lower end of each standard is preferably provided with a ring 14., through which a pin 15 may be driven into the ground to hold the tent against overturning/ In the collapsed position of the tent, the beams are folded down and lie parallel to the standards forming a compact and short bundle and when the tent is to be set up, the standards are separated and the center piece pushed upward. When the beams reach the horizontal position the knuckle braces 12 straighten out and then the standards are moved outwardly at their bases so that the knuckle braces 5 straighten out, thus forming a rigid structure. When the tent is to be collapsed the knuckle braces are broken upward and the center piece pulled down and the standards moved inwardly.

I claim:

1. In a tent, a collapsible frame composed of standards, beams hinged to the upper ends of the standards so that they are mov able downwardly from a horizontal position to substantial parallelism with the standards, a center-piece to which said beams are hinged, a post secured to said center piece, knuckle braces connecting the beams and standards and knuckle braces connecting the beams and post.

2. In a tent, a collapsible frame composed of standards, beams hinged to the upper ends of the standards so that they are movable downwardly from a horizontal position to substantial parallelism With the standards, a center-piece to which said beams are hinged in such manner that the beams are movable downwardly only from the horizontal position, a post secured to andextending above said center-piece and knuckle braces connecting said beams and post.

3. In a tent, a collapsible frame composed of standards, beams hinged to the upper ends-of the standards so that they are movable downwardly fron a horizontal position to substantial parallelism with the standards, a center-piece to which said beams are hinged in such manner that the beams are Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of iatents,

movable downwardly only from the horizontal position, a post secured to and extending above said center-piece, knuckle braces having stop-hinges connecting the beams and standards and knuckle braces having stop-hinges connecting the post and the beams.

4c. vIn a ztent,'.a collapsible frame somposed of standards, beams connected to said standards by stop-hinges which hold the beams substantially horizontal, :a center-piece to Which the beams are connected by stophinges Which hold the beams substantially horizontal against movement upwardly at their inner ends and braces connecting the beams and standards. I V

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at San Francisco, California, this 15th day of June, 1917. V ALFRED D. WVREGHT. In presence 'of H. G. PRosT.

Washington, D. *0? 

